Improvement in end-gates for wagons



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

STEPHEN F. ROBERTSON, OF ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN END-GATES FOR WAGONS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 139,974, dated J unc17, 1873; application filed October 19, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, STEPHEN F. ROBERT- SON, of Rockford, in the countyof Winnebago and State of Illinois, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Wagon-Box, of which the following is a specificationFigure 1 represents a part of the rear end of a wagon-box to which myimprovement has been applied. Fig. 2 is a detail horizontal section ofthe same, taken through the line :0 w, Fig.1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My invention has for itsobject to improve the construction ofwagon-boxes so as to make them stronger and more durable, and at thesame time more convenient in use; and it consists in the combination ofpartsas hereinafter described.

A represents a side board, B an end board, and O the bottom board, of awagon-box. To the inner surface of the side boards A at their ends isattached a plate, D, of malleable iron, which is cast with two flangesupon its outer side to form a groove to receive the end of the end boardB. Upon the lower end of the plate D is cast a bolt, al which passesdown through the bottom board 0 and through the cross-bar placed beneathsaid bottom boards, and has a hand or lever-nut screwed upon it. Uponthe outer flange of the plate D, near its upper end, is formed an eye,(1 to receive the hook e-cast upon the malleable iron cleat E attachedto the end board B, and which may be made light and at the same timestrong by having a flange or rib cast upon it. F is a bolt attached tothe end board B, and which passes down through the bottom board 0 andthe cross-bar, and has a hand or lever nut screwed upon its lower end.

By this construction the parts of the wagonbox will be much more firmlyheld together than when the ordinary wooden cleats and

